Chapter 377: The Golden Drum of the Gentleman (18)

Those who fight in a car are all gentlemen.

Those who carry spears in array, all their pawns.

The gentlemen who have been trained since childhood have fighting skills far superior to those of these pawns. The art of imperial archery is the ability of samurai nobles to settle down.

The formation after the chariot rushed was very scary.

The musketeers, who had finally waited for the order to shoot, almost trembled as they fired the first shot, and then retreated to the back to reload.

The musketeers on the left flank were under more pressure than on the right flank, which was not suppressed by archers or chariots, and many of them could not calm down while loading, and from time to time they looked up to observe the impact of those chariots, fearing that they would break through their own formations.

The musketeers in the back row, taking their place in the front row, finally got a clear look at the situation of the tank after the first salvo.

The heavy, fifteen-pound heavy muskets and one or two heavy lead bullets formed a barrage that caused the Yue people to lose twenty chariots, but the follow-up chariots could no longer turn and could only continue to rush forward.

In the blink of an eye, after hitting a distance of sixty or seventy paces, the speed of the chariot had rushed to the maximum, and some of the "rook left" shooters on the chariot relied on the archery skills they had trained since childhood, and shot the righteous teachers in the front row with their bows.

Although the front row of the righteous master wore leather armor, the distance of fifty or sixty paces and the skills of these samurai trained since childhood, there were still thirty or forty people who were hit by arrows.

When the man who was struck by the arrow fell, the spearmen in the back row immediately stepped forward, filled the gap in the front row, listened to the sound of their own drums, ate and held the spear with trembling hands, and half-crouched on the ground to support the shaft of the spear with the earth, in order to resist the impact of the chariot.

Eleven small cannons that had been prepared were also aimed at the chariot, and this was the last round of artillery fire they could cast in this chariot onslaught.

Cannonballs made of gravel and small iron pellets shot out in a wide fan, and the galloping horses were concentrated and fell to the ground with a bang, and several people were thrown out by the high-speed chariot.

But there were still more than seventy chariots rushing in front of the foot soldiers, and the musketeers, who could have fired again, could not bear the impact and chose to retreat, only some ink masters or veterans chose to shoot one last time, and then retreated.

In this impact, the Yue people lost nearly half of their chariots, but it was not the end of the crossbow, once these chariots tore through the defense line of the foot soldiers, then it caused a chain of collapse.

Several chariots rushed too far forward to turn, and they were still plunged into a hedgehog-like spear array, and the sound of the cracking of the spear shaft was mixed with the screams of both sides.

The heavy musketeers' lieutenants drew their swords and crouched beside the spearmen, fighting the gentlemen who had fallen from their chariots under the cover of their spears.

Gongzaoye also has the most elite brigade of the Mojia Volunteer Division in the mobile preparation, and the chariot of the Yue people is also elite, but now he judges that it seems that there is no need to let this brigade go up.

So while he ordered people to organize the musketeers who had retreated to the back to continue loading, he asked the more than twenty ink men around him who were proficient in combat to join the most chaotic place and the most severely affected by the chariot.

The chariot was followed by the apprentices, and if the chariot was still burning, the apprentices would rush over. But if you can repel the first wave of the tank, you will need to fight again.

Gong Zaoye's hands are itchy, but now that his duties are important, he can't step forward to kill them personally, and can only hope that those spearmen can rely on their usual training and discipline to survive this most difficult period.

It seems that the front is still neat, not crumbling, as long as it lasts for a while, the Yue people should withdraw to beat the drum and fight again, he knows the previous mode of war.

The Yue people are not stupid, if the chariot finds that the opponent's foot soldiers are not shaken, it will not choose to give up the speed and play with the spearmen here.

Although the remnants of dozens of chariots had begun to turn, these dense spear formations severely limited the martial arts behind the chariots, and the length of the halberds could not threaten the infantry in the array.

After the chariot turned, it began to disengage slightly, preparing to rely on the archery on the left side of the chariot to shoot the dense spear array out of the gap, so as to charge again, or create an opportunity for the infantry behind to charge.

The spear formation is not scattered, there are no gaps, and the impact will only increase casualties.

Some of the most courageous musketeers were already reloaded in the back row, and when the chariot was ready to break away from the bow and arrow, they stepped forward to the gap in the spear formation and opened fire on the chariot speeding thirty paces away.

Although those who were the left of the chariot were highly skilled, the chariot gave up the impact and turned to the method of chariot shooting to create chaos, which was acceptable to the ordinary apprentices, but it was self-defeating to deal with the army of volunteers mixed with a large number of musketeers.

Mounted archery can never win with foot shooting.

In the roar of the first group of musketeers with the greatest courage, Gong Zaoye immediately sensed the threat and hurriedly ordered someone: "Don't pursue!" ”

Once there is a gap in the confusion of the formation, if the king of Yue notices it, or the nobles who lead the troops of the Yue people notice it, it is very likely to wedge through the gap, causing the front to waver.

Therefore, there was no pursuit on this side, no counterattack, and all attacks had to be carried out by the most mobile force on the right flank.

Orders were passed on to the sound of gunfire, and gradually joined together, and the sergeants of each company shouted the slogan: "No pursuit".

As Gong Zaoye had predicted, the attack was over when the assault failed and the chariot turned to cart fire.

Because the number of musketeers is far greater than that of the chariot, and because the distance of thirty paces is actually convenient for the chariot to shoot the righteous division in the array with archery, it is also very suitable for the musketeers to counterattack the chariot with heavy muskets.

The two wheels were fired, the chariot was defeated, turned and retreated, and the disciples who followed behind retreated after the chariot before they could fight.

On the side of the righteous division, there was an order not to pursue, and the formation of the front row that was quickly replenished, almost the moment when the chariot fled, many of the righteous division's foot soldiers on the left flank cheered in unison.

They had only been educated to line up on the plains, and the foot soldiers could withstand the onslaught of chariots, as long as the musketeers cooperated.

However, the psychological advantages of hundreds of years of aristocratic gentlemen and the way of chariot warfare of hundreds of years of war have made the chariot a kind of existence that psychologically crushes the pawns.

Although the words of the ink master are almost true, in order for these foot soldiers to reverse this mentality, it is necessary to fight blood and fire.

Fortunately, they withstood the impact of the chariots, and even slaughtered many gentlemen and nobles, forcing back the chariots of the Yue people without the front being scattered.

Although it could not be pursued, it was enough to cheer.

Before this, Gong Zaoye only thought that these foot soldiers could be described as a strong army, but he didn't know how strong they were.

But now, looking at the more than 60 damaged chariots left on the battlefield by the Yue people, as well as the righteous soldiers who obeyed the order and did not pursue, Gong Zaoye understood that it was really like the "proud" of Shisuo: this battle must be won, but it is the difference between a big victory and a small victory.

And the key to this lies in the right wing of the righteous teacher.

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On the right flank, the cavalry of the righteous division constantly patrolled the flanks of the Yueren, but did not attack, as if looking for an opportunity.

After the collapse of the first wave of attack, the subsequent left flank of the Yue people concentrated near a small hill, and the small hill before the war was the key point for the right flank foot soldiers to attract the Yue people in this attack.

Once the attraction was successful, the infantry and cavalry, which had broken away from the left flank, were to rely on the cover of this small mound to prevent them from being detected by the Viet Cong, and moved in a circle to the left flank from the rear of the mound high ground where they were suitable.

The six brigades on the right flank are all above the first level of assessment, and there are many people from Pei County, and there are also many veterans, so the left flank of the Yue people actually has a certain advantage in numbers.

The Seventh Brigade of the Seventh Brigade was on the far and far side of the entire ranks, and they were waiting for their small artillery to redeploy after forming here.

Relying on the cavalry to patrol the flank, the Yue people were temporarily in a nervous waiting.

In fact, even if the Yue people took the initiative to attack, the righteous division would not be afraid, and in the previous confusion of the Yue people, the six brigades on the right flank of the righteous division did not pursue, but stopped the whole team to maintain the formation.

The musket company of King Shu Qing's was already loaded, and after glancing at the artillery behind him, it had also been deployed, and twenty-five light small cannons were sandwiched between the two brigades and aimed at the Yue people on the hill.

After a roar, the Yue people on the hill could no longer bear this terrible death, and launched an assault on the righteous master below the hill.

Cold weapon battles require courage, and you have to endure the bleeding and the rupture of your stomach and intestines.

But in the face of the iron pills who don't know when they can fall next to them, in the face of these iron pills smashing the heads of the partners around them at once, and in the face of the panic that an iron pill doesn't know where to fly and lift his skull...... The courage required to fight with cold weapons is far worse than to endure artillery shelling.

King Shuqing heard the order from the six fingers in the distance, and also heard the movement of the bone flute, so he ordered: "Quanlian! Advance! ”

With the order, the four brigades deployed in front seemed to have a hand in command, and they moved forward in unison, and the musketeers moved forward close to the spearmen, this time to completely crush the left flank of the Yue people at this time, so as to force the Yue people to mobilize their forces and compress the battle line to the side of the water.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and when the distance was about fifty paces, the drum beat abruptly, and King Shuqing subconsciously shouted: "Three rows of fire!" Free reloading! ”

The musketeers of the first row were half-crouched on the ground, the second column was divided, and the third column took advantage of the huge gap between the arquebuses to disperse the gap behind the second column.

King Shuqing aimed the musket in front of him at a Yue man wielding a short sword, closed his eyes the moment he pulled the copper hook, and hurriedly retreated.

The moment the guns rang out, the spearmen also launched a charge, fifty paces on each side, which was the best distance to rush up while maintaining their formation.

After King Shuqing retreated to the back, the remaining two rows of musketeers also finished shooting and quickly retreated.

The company of spearmen fought with the rushing Viet et allows, and King Shu Qing reloaded with a mechanical movement as he watched his allies and enemies fighting hard.

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